Unravelled Knots
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Unravelled Knots, by Baroness Orczy, author of the Scarlet Pimpernel series, contains thirteen short stories about the Old Man in the Corner, Orzy's armchair detective who solves crimes for his own en
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The Case of Miss Elliott
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The Case of Miss Elliott was Baroness Orczy's first collection of detective stories. It appeared in 1905 and featured the first of her detective characters, The Old Man in the Corner, who solves myste
Unravelled Knots
…for his own entertainment. This is the last of three books of short stories featuring the detective and follows those in The Old Man in the Corner and The Case of Miss Elliott. In these first person narratives, a woman, presumably the Polly Burton of The Old Man in the Corner, visits a tea-house after an absence of twenty…
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